An Art Incubator for contemporary European non-institutionalised and independent theatre www.makeamoveproject.eu Impressum Title Print Make a Move – An Art Incubator for It-graf contemporary European non-institutionalised Kovinska ul. 11A, 10090, Zagreb Table of and independent theatre • www.it-graf.hr • [email protected] Author Ivana Peranić Place and year of the issue Rijeka, 2019. Contents / Texts by Ivana Peranić Barbara Rovere ISBN 978-953-8274-05-3 Armando Rotondi Valentina Temussi “This project has been funded with support from 00. Foreword / 02 Daria Lavrennikov the European Commission. This publication Máiréad Ní Chróinín reflects the views only of the author, and the Lia Codrina Contiu Commission cannot be held responsible for 01. About the Project / 04 any use which may be made of the information 1.1. Partners, Associates and Funders / 06 Editors contained therein.” 1.2. Project Timeline, Outputs and Target Groups / 08 Ivana Peranić Marta Pupić-Bakrač “This publication has been funded with support from the Kultura nova Foundation. This 02. Barcelona Meeting / 10 Language editor publication reflects the views only of the author, Máiréad Ní Chróinín and do not necessarily express the views of the 2.1. Target Group Needs Identification Report / 12 Kultura nova Foundation.” Layout and design 03. Art Incubator / 14 Ana Somek 3.1. ‘Digital Practices’ / 20 • MERAKI Ltd. 3.2. ‘Site-specific Theatre Practices and Audiences’ / 22 Publishers 3.3. ‘Inside Out – Positioning non-institutionalised theatre practices in Creative laboratory of Contemporary Theatre, KRILA, Kvaternikova 4, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia a critical journalistic and business context’ / 36 • www.krila.org • [email protected] 04. Action Research Methodology / 38 Foreword Agency (EACEA) approved co-financing of the communication and dissemination activities project. As small cultural operators, we have and enable exploitation of the project content already achieved a lot - still, there are many for policy making and cultural management challenges ahead of us. purposes, outside of immediate project partnership and beyond the duration of the Make a Move is primarily a capacity building project. Because, to be an independent artist/ project, but at the same time it aims to shine a organisation nowadays is a valuable political and new light on the contemporary European non- artistic statement which needs to be heard! institutionalised and independent theatre sector. Make a Move project came about organically. independent artist in the field of contemporary 02 03 It seeks to do this by creating a new awareness Ivana Peranić A group of independent movement based theatre, I lacked the conditions and resources around the artistic and audience development Make a Move Project Leader European artists attempted to collaborate and to fully focus on my artistic creation. I often relevance of this sector, which throughout Artistic Director of the Creative Laboratory 00.develop an international theatre production. wondered - what if the conditions were more the history has been an important carrier of of Contemporary Theatre Regardless of all our efforts and commitments, supportive, how would that effect my artistic contemporaneity, innovation and exploration. it was clear to us that we lacked the capacities work? The majority of the existing ‘repertoire-system’, and strong financial and political support and text-based institutionalised theatre has not recognition needed to successfully develop In moving onward with Make a Move, we were evolved in synchronicity with audiences an international project. That was the crucial lucky to meet Barbara Rovere, an extraordinary and the social and technological context. moment when the Make a Move project was Slovenian cultural manager, who believed in our On the other hand, numerous progressive born, as an intermediate project between where vision and fully supported us during the process art forms of contemporary theatre practices we as an arts sector are now and where we of project development and application writing remain marginalised within the world of non- would like to be in the near future. We decided for the Creative Europe Programme Call with institutionalised theatre practitioners and small to take action to affect change in the ability her expertise, sensitivity and intuitive approach. independent cultural operators who lack the of the non-institutionalised and independent During that process we were additionally capacities and resources to scale their activities theatre sector to evolve and ultimately bring encouraged and strengthened with new and bring them to a wide audiences. theatre closer to the contemporary society. partners who applied to our Call for Partners and with whom we finalised development of the In collaboration with higher educational The decision to create the Make a Move project. We were thrilled and honoured when institutions the project applies action research project resonated with me personally: As an the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive methodology which will feed into the project’s Foreword Foreword Photo Credit / Nicole Pschetz About the Project The Make a Move project will execute and theatre productions that will be presented as 04 05 test an innovative Art Incubator program, work-in-progress to audiences in three project designed particularly for non-institutionalised partners’ countries. The project will identify The project title ‘Make a Move’ was inspired by 01.theatre practitioners and small independent at least 5 new cooperation opportunities and a graffiti which we saw on a wall during a city cultural operators primarily from the field of initiate applications to sources of funding walk on occasion of the third Rijeka workshop in contemporary movement-based theatre with producing a target of theatre productions for October 2017. the first group of10 full-time participants display at European Capital of Culture occasions and 30 auditing participants from 8 European in Rijeka (Croatia) and Galway (Ireland). countries (Austria, Croatia, Ireland, France, and Workinglifebalance Ltd. (Graz, Austria). Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain) who will have The initiator and leader of the project is The Make a Move project has been developed the opportunity to develop their artistic and an arts organisation Creative Laboratory of under the European Capital of Culture professional skills and grow their production Contemporary Theatre KRILA from Rijeka. The programme - Rijeka 2020: Port of Diversity, Capital of Culture Galway 2020, the Galway City proposals through co-creation processes in main partners of the project are the Galway project “Unreal Cities”. The project has been co- Council, the Irish Arts Council, the Ajuntament de collaboration with international group of artists. Theater Festival (Ireland), the Institute of Arts funded by the Creative Europe Programme of Sitges and the French Institute Barcelona. The Art Incubator will be implemented in 2019 Barcelona (Spaing), the University of Arts Targu- the European Union, RIJEKA 2020 LLC, Ministry in three cities: Galway (April / May), Rijeka Mures (Romania). The associate partners are of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Kultura MAKE A MOVE is part of the wider project (September) and Targu-Mures (December). ACTS (Oslo, Norway), MOVEO (Barcelona, ​​Spain) nova Foundation, City of Rijeka, Primorje-Gorski “Unreal Cities”, developed under the European The project will produce to various stages of 88 (Montpellier, France), Poulpe Electrique kotar County, Austrian Cultural Forum Zagreb Capital of Culture programme - Rijeka 2020: development at least 10 new contemporary (Arcueil, France), ToTum TeaTre (Barcelona, ​​Spain) and Embassy of Spain in Zagreb, the European Port of Diversity, Kitchen flagship. About the project About the project Associates 5. ACTS – laboratory for performance 6. MOVEO – Centro de formación practices, Oslo, Norway y creación – Bacelona, Spain | W https://actspractices.org | F @Actslab | W https://www.moveo.cat/ | F @centro.moveo Partners, | I @cia_moveo_barcelona 7. PLATFORM 88 – Montpellier, France | W www.platform88.com/ 5. ACTS - | F @CompagniePlatform88 Associates laboratory for | I @platform88_theatre | T @platform88 performance practices 8. POULPE ELECTRIQUE – Arcueil, France | W http://poulpeelectrique.net/en/home/ and Funders | F @poulpe.electrique 9. TOTUM TEATRE – Barcelona, Spain Partners 2. Galway | W http://totumteatre.com/?lang=en 1. Creative Laboratory of Contemporary Theatre | F @totum teatre 1.1.Theatre KRILA – Rijeka, Croatia Festival W www.krila.org | F @krila.laboratory | I @krila.ri 10. WORKINGLIFEBALANCE LTD. – Graz, Austria | W www.workinglifebalanceltd.wordpress.com/ 2. Galway Theatre Festival – Galway, Ireland | F @workinglifebalance W http://galwaytheatrefestival.com/ 4. The University of | F @galwaytheatrefestival Funders Arts Târgu-Mureș | I @galway_theatre_festival 8. POULPE EACEA – Creative Europe | T @GwayTheatreFest ELECTRIQUE Rijeka 2020 LLC (Rijeka 2020 – European 10. Workinglifebalance Ltd. Capital of Culture) 3. Institute of the Arts Barcelona – Sitges, Spain Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia | W www.iabarcelona.com Kultura nova Foundation 1. Creative City of Rijeka | F @instituteoftheartsbarcelona 7. PLATFORM 88 | I @iabarcelona | T @iabarcelona Laboratory of Primorje - Gorski kotar County Contemporary Austrian Cultural Forum Zagreb 4. The University of Arts Târgu-Mureș, Theatre Embassy of Spain in Zagreb – Târgu-Mureș, Romania KRILA Galway 2020 – ECoC 3. Institute